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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CKAN Search API
  version: '2026-10-13'
  description: 'GENERATED FROM DOCUMENTATION by API Evangelist on 2026-10-13: 7 operation(s) read from 6 public documentation page(s) (each operation names its page in x-source). This is not the provider''s published contract; CKAN has published no machine-readable contract that the pipeline could find. Engine: local.'
  x-evidence-tiers:
    code-example: 12
    documentation: -5
    pages-with-code: 6
    pages-read: 6
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-provenance: generated
  x-authored-by: API Evangelist
  x-generated: '2026-10-13'
  x-generator: generate-contract-from-docs.py
  x-engine: local
  x-sources:
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/index.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/legacy-api.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/maintaining/filestore.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/maintaining/datastore.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/extensions/remote-config-update.html
  - https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/contributing/test.html
servers:
- url: http://demo.ckan.org
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /api/search/dataset:
    get:
      operationId: get_api_search_dataset
      tags:
      - Search
      summary: GET /api/search/dataset
      x-source: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.12/api/legacy-api.html
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (shape read from the example response on the page)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetApiSearchDatasetResponse'
      x-evidence:
        kind: code-example
        language: curl
        snippet: "curl 'http://thedatahub.org/api/search/dataset?qjson=\\{\"author\":\"The%20Stationery%20Office %20Li mited\"\\}' \n Revision Parameters \n Param-Key \n Param-Value \n Example \n Notes \n since_time \n Date-Time \n since_time=2010-05-05T19:42:45.854533 \n The time can be less precisely\nstated (e.g 2010-05-05). \n since_id \n Uuid \n since_id=6c9f32ef-1f93-4b2f-891b-fd01924ebe08 \n The stated id will not be\nincluded i"
components:
  schemas:
    GetApiSearchDatasetResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        ResultSet:
          type: object
          properties:
            Result:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  match_field:
                    type: string
                  match_displayed:
                    type: string
                  name:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization